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Highly Protected Marine Areas protect our diverse species and habitats around the English Coast.
Throughout 2023, the Marine Management Organisation and Studland Bay Marine Partnership (SBMP) have continued to take forward initiatives to protect Studland Bay’s precious marine ecosystems.
Marine Management Organisation (MMO) byelaw to protect valuable marine habitats and species in a further 13 English offshore marine protected areas (MPAs) will come into force on 22 March 2024.
In order to support the Government’s ambition to protect and restore clean healthy, productive and biologically diverse marine ecosystems, the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) undertakes a range of marine conservation activities.
The UK Government has today reaffirmed its commitment as a leader on international nature conservation at the UN General Assembly.
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Information about the Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) designation at Albert Field, in South West England.
MMO is holding a community workshop bringing together people who live, work and visit Studland Bay to share knowledge, experiences and values associated with the bay and its vitally important natural environment.
To ensure that MMO decisions on managing fishing in marine protected areas are informed by the best available evidence and a wide range of perspectives, MMO regularly seeks views from stakeholders and public. This is undertaken through a range of...
As part of the next stages for managing English offshore marine protected areas (MPAs), MMO has launched a call for evidence to support the assessment of fishing on harbour porpoise and marine bird MPAs.
Information about the Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) designation at Markham's Triangle, in the East of England.
Government partners with conservation charity ZSL to launch app update allowing tracking and logging of creatures in waters around British Overseas Territories.
An historic 19th-century wall on a Somerset military base has been restored by VIVO Defence Services.
This page details the MMO’s work on the management of marine non-licensable activity in Studland Bay Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ).
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UK announces support for moratorium on granting of exploitation licences for deep sea mining by the International Seabed Authority.
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